Places pleiades Wants to Go

This ten-ton fruit sculpture celebrates the Finland homeland.

This restaurant combines two Finnish traditions in one place: warm-weather relaxation and outdoor carpet-cleaning.

In the waters outside Helsinki, a tiny island once used as a military outpost now welcomes visitors.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.

This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A historic Christian shrine nestled within a spectacular natural cave.

An out-of-place grove of sequoias thrives in northern Spain.

This magnificent castle grew from a small Moorish fortress, and reportedly inspired two iconic Disney castles.

This "flat geyser" bubbles up out of the ground periodically like a disappearing river.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.

One of the most spectacular bridges in Spain spans a narrow chasm that divides the city of Ronda.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

A charming Spanish village sits atop this natural limestone overpass.

This awesome Spanish castle is so fantastical it was actually used on Game of Thrones.